New South Wales. 
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“ There would therefore ho the following three forms 
(1.) Rhacopteris inaquilatera, Gopp. 
„ Habcllifera, Stur. 
Romeri , Peistm. 
Of these forma arc present in your Lowest Coal-beds—at Smith s Creek the 
forms Nos. 1 and 3, and at Port Stephens No. 1. 
“ The other little specimen which you sent from Smith’s Creek looks very 
like some forms which also occur in the Silesian Kohleukalk, and which I 
thought could belong to the genus Psilophyton or which possibly could perhaps 
be the fructification of a fern. This will be determined hereafter, but so 
much is certain that similar forms occur in the Lower Carboniferous. 
[Since the foregoing has been in type, I have received a copy of a paper 
printed in the “ Meconh of the Geol. Survey of India," No. 1, 18,8 entitled 
T* The Palaontoloaical relations of the Gondtcana System : a Reply to Dr. lets/- 
mantel, by W. T. Stanford, F.R.S., Deputy Superintendent, Geol. Survey of 
India.” I can now only refer my readers to this document, which continues 
the discussion as to connection between the Indian and Australian Coal- 
formations to date.—W.I3.C.] 
to Dr. Feist- 
Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer.—1878. 
